Book Review: Finding Molly Johnson: Irish Famine Orphans in Canada by Mark G. McGowan
Atrocity: A Literary History
‘Subjects to be dealt with’: Disability, class, and carceral power in early 20th-century Britain
Who shall and shall not have a place in the world?
LARB
This is the seventh installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present.
To live here, you have to fight: how women led Appalachian movements for social justice
The Most Mournful Rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” Ever Performed
Marvin Gaye’s 1983 performance of the national anthem transforms the song into a soulful elegy, a bittersweet reflection on freedom and its possibilities.
The rise of subaltern gurus in western India: Caste, identity and religion
Oregon’s Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century
Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. By Mary Fulbrook
Queer connections: The policing of gay personal adverts in the 1960s
The National Archives | Catalogue reference: DPP 2/4670
Copies of the International Times, seized in raids on their offices in 1969.
An Introduction to the History of UK Politics from the 20th Century
Dilemma of employment discrimination against American LGBT employees and its judicial response from the perspective of China
Making iron, producing space! How coerced work defined a Swedish early modern ironmaking region
Reconsidering labor coercion through the logics of Im/mobility and the environment
HIV Vaccine Research Coordination by the World Health Organization Between 1990 and 1995: Negotiating the Access to Research Cohorts of Military Subjects
Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750
Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
Meanings of Agency, Agency of Meaning: On Synthesis and Entanglement
Citizenship and the Finnish School Radio of the 1930s
history.ox.ac.uk | B Brandt, Press Photo Archive
The Finnish Broadcasting Company was established in 1926 and the first school radio programmes were aired in the autumn of 1934.[1] One of their explicit aims was to reduce inequalities between urban and rural areas by allowing even “students from peripheral schools to come into contact with leading cultural personalities”. [2] Simultaneously, the school radio was viewed as an incremental tool in strengthening the pupils’ enthusiasm for learning and schoolwork. This was not atypical. As Fleming and Toutant have formulated it, school radio of the 1920s and 1930s was viewed as “‘a modern box of magic,’ an appliance that could make school lessons come to life in a way they never had before”.[3]
50 years ago: Social services council; Gleeda Forbes honoured
Long-term wage inequality in imperial China: From 202 BCE to 1912 CE
The evolution of the migration industry – how have employers been supported in sourcing their workforce?
The affect lab: The history and limits of measuring emotion
Gender inequality and the Irish Revolution: the girls of Na Fianna Éireann, 1911–22
Freeman’s Challenge: The murder that shook America’s original prison for profit
Emotions in the making: sexual violence in the Japanese empire, 1937–1945
Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: Conviction and Career
Queering family history and the lives of Irish men before gay liberation
‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879–1948
This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as ‘star men’, convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms. ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879–1948 investigates the origins of the star class in the years leading up to its establishment in 1879, and charts its subsequent development during the late-Victorian, Edwardian, and interwar decades.
Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834
Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move
Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain
The ABC of history education: a comparison of Australian, British and Canadian approaches to teaching national and First Nations histories
Models of leaving home: patterns and trends in Sweden, 1830–1959
The Routledge History of Loneliness, 1st Ed
The Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children, 1965–1970: Emotional disturbance, race and paths not taken in child psychiatry
The politics of recovery: Women’s mental health activism in the UK, 1986–2002, with a focus on Bristol Crisis Service for Women
San Leucio, the utopian social labor experiment in the pre-unification Southern Italy
Taxis v. Uber in Paris: technology, capital, and the sharing economy
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Ailing Empires: The Morphine Issue in Sino-foreign Relations at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s-Present Day
The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941: Children’s Tragedy
Between feminism and partisanship: the rise and decline of the women’s movement in Belize, 1975–1993
Care as untranslatable
History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
Care has become an overdetermined word in the medical humanities and beyond, a focus not only of debate around the nature and purpose of the field, but also of the wider issue of the status of medicine in relation to society and the individual. As a symptom of this problematic, this article proposes care as an ‘untranslatable’, in the sense defined by Barbara Cassin. This is pursued via an engagement with the history of the ethics of care and with its translation into francophone contexts as une éthique du care, in tension with the philosophie du soin elaborated in the work of Frédéric Worms, and then with the several translations into French and English of Sorge and its derivations Besorgen and Fürsorge in Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit (Being and Time). A genealogy of care is thus established, and what emerges as the principal motif of its untranslatability is the relation between a primary form of relationality and the socio-technical dimension in which we may recognise healthcare.
Building the Worlds That Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History
Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France
Establishing the U.S. Aging Research Enterprise: Founding of the National Institute on Aging
Forgotten histories: what fetal and baby remains in medical collections tell us about inequality
New Zealand’s 1875 Anatomy Act mirrored British laws that allowed the use of unclaimed bodies from public institutions, like hospitals and asylums, for anatomical study. These laws disproportionately affected impoverished families. Hospitals were able to retain custody of the deceased when families lacked financial means for burial or an individual’s body lay “unclaimed”.
